I had the fortune to see a band with Jon Hare (Sensible software founder) in perform music live at some virgin convention in blackpool called replay last year.

The performance is here
http://www.mike65.ukfsn.org/main/uploads/files/Tagged/

They did the Cannon fodder intro theme and the hill music. But the hill music has lyrics.

Its not a bad performance so worth checking out if your old enough to remember cannon fodder

Simon

04-06-2011, 03:09 PM

no one remember cannon fodder and the cool music??

I know its not on steam but its on gog. open your minds people!

EvilAsh

04-06-2011, 03:28 PM

Oh I remember it fondly. I also remember that it's very hard to get your men to general rank. ;)

ColOfNature

04-06-2011, 03:50 PM

The GOG version is the Mega Drive port - no cool opening music, just a naff animated video. Which is a definite shame, and the best reason to find an old Amiga version and install UAE.

I never once got a general. I got fed up of trying to hide Jules and Jops in some out-of-the-way corner of the map and eventually just treated the wee fellas as, well, cannon fodder.

Does anyone know how many soldiers' names the original Cannon Fodder had in it's roster? I don't think it ever ran out, and not for want of trying.

Oh, and please, please, by all the Elder Gods, let this be good! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hb0mGib5QY)

Simon

04-06-2011, 04:21 PM

The GOG version is the Mega Drive port - no cool opening music, just a naff animated video. Which is a definite shame, and the best reason to find an old Amiga version and install UAE.

umm what? I have a stack of versions of this game and it isnt the mega drive version. its an early virgin cd release with the animated intro and it has all the same music

ColOfNature

04-06-2011, 04:41 PM

Clarification: the version I got from GOG had an animated intro, but the opening music was just a duff version of the Never Been So Much Fun tune without the vocals. I was hugely disappointed. Someone told me it was the Mega Drive version, but I may have been misinformed.

Drake Sigar

04-06-2011, 05:00 PM

Great music, great game. Mine even came with friendly installation instructions which asked me to pour coffee into the computer.

Don't look at me like that. Pretty sure it wasn't the voices in my head this time.

ColOfNature

04-06-2011, 05:10 PM

Hah! Yes. The formatting of a save-game disk. No progress bars for Sensible Software, oh no.